tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post277300516597744667..comments2023-05-30T15:55:14.131+01:00Comments on Martin writes...: The great Twitter experimentMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-83679308321044141802012-04-10T14:08:30.495+01:002012-04-10T14:08:30.495+01:00Update with three and a half days left:
Following...Update with three and a half days left:<br /><br />Following: 2.000<br />Followers: 1,237<br />Timeline: now ignored<br />Unsolicited spam DMs: stopped counting<br />Booksales directly attributable to all this effort: still only 6, perhaps 7Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-34516357066888641892012-03-28T17:32:26.770+01:002012-03-28T17:32:26.770+01:00An update on the experiment, 12 days in:
Followin...An update on the experiment, 12 days in:<br /><br />Following: 2.000<br />Followers: 851<br />Timeline: so useless as to be unused<br />Unsolicited spam DMs: stopped counting<br />Booksales directly attributable to all this effort: still only 1, perhaps 2<br /><br />Feel like I have sold my soul for a doughnut...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-38577006585690833552012-03-21T13:42:12.398+00:002012-03-21T13:42:12.398+00:00Hmm, that thought occurred to me too. The reality ...Hmm, that thought occurred to me too. The reality is that, at the end of the experiment, I'm almost certainly going to have a mass de-following to bring my timeline back into the realms of useability... because without that, what's the point of being on Twitter in the first place?Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-65485579216420019872012-03-21T13:23:44.215+00:002012-03-21T13:23:44.215+00:00It's probably a bit late now but a better idea...It's probably a bit late now but a better idea might've been to create a separate Twitter account for all the book promotion & mass following of strangers thing; then your timeline wouldn't have been so impossibly fast & crammed with rubbish from people you couldn't care less about. Then you could have left the main one for fun stuff and to follow the people who are actually your friends.Kippershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204054692989383519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-3836030025678224422012-03-21T11:58:18.336+00:002012-03-21T11:58:18.336+00:00An update on the experiment, 5 days in:
Following...An update on the experiment, 5 days in:<br /><br />Following: 1,994<br />Followers: 552<br />Timeline: hopelessly screwed<br />Unsolicited spam DMs: about a dozen<br />Booksales directly attributable to all this effort: 1, perhaps 2<br /><br />I might not last the full month.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-18463045822736659512012-03-17T21:07:50.139+00:002012-03-17T21:07:50.139+00:00You're right, of course. So far all I've d...You're right, of course. So far all I've done is gain a shed load of followers. Twuffer or not, I simply don't have the time to keep them all interested. Still, it's an experiment, and I'll give it a month...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140800308851520729.post-70427910083433107692012-03-17T19:41:14.224+00:002012-03-17T19:41:14.224+00:00From what I've read, to get twitter to work fo...From what I've read, to get twitter to work for you, you've got to work twitter. That's more than just following people - it's actively responding to them as well. Who's got the time for that? Unless you can afford to employ a full-time tweeter...Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.com